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11-MAY-2010

Martha the Holstein

May Challenge: Memories

So many memories here - mostly centered around my cousin's farm...
- my cousins and I would feed the cows with grass from our side of the fence
(it's always greener you know) and get zapped by the electric fence until our parents
realized what we were doing and turned the power off
- "helping" Uncle Art in the barn
- trying to pet the calves and getting licked by their HUGE rough tongues
- drinking fresh milk
- playing hide-n-seek amongst the bales of hay
- crawling under the electric fence recently because I couldn't remember how to disconnect it
and later having my young 4-year-old cousin show me how

Canon Powershot G11
1/400s f/4.5 at 30.5mm iso200 full exif

other sizes: small medium original auto
Jola Dziubinska13-May-2010 23:26
Hi, Martha, nice to meet you :)
Cindi Smith12-May-2010 12:14
What a memory. Loving Martha! She's beautiful!
LynnH12-May-2010 12:03
Oh, those are wonderful memories!!
Stephanie12-May-2010 09:27
A couple years ago, my hubby fed a black angus cow white bread when we were visiting a friends ranch in Texas. The owner was absolutely amazed the cow ate the bread because she swore up and down it would never take it!
Mieke WA Minkjan12-May-2010 07:27
Martha looks like a real friesian cow, brings back memories of green paddocks with grazing cows
borisalex12-May-2010 05:01
What a a great story of all your memories! I have similar ones! Thanks for sharing and say "Hi" to Marta ! :) V.
carol j. phipps12-May-2010 01:23
Very nice closeup of Martha!
Fred Gary11-May-2010 23:17
Nice shot, I see you found your cow you were looking for. I can relate to each memory as I grew up on a farm in Northern NY.
Jola Dziubinska11-May-2010 23:07
She looks very friendly, cool portrait.
laine11-May-2010 22:45
Good healthy memories!!
Kathryn11-May-2010 21:22
Great expressive shot.
Leo11-May-2010 20:56
You feed the cousins grass like a cow?
Wonderful, multiple memories. Good photo though I'd boost the dark areas to see the cow's big brown eyes. Perhaps force the flash to fill in the face. Are they all named like Martha? On the dairy Ken works at of perhaps 100 head only one is named, the pretty brown & white Eleanor.
Ed McConnell11-May-2010 20:43
Martha's a good look'n old girl..funny memories Brenda.
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